The Wiz That Waz (II)

From the must-read report in The New York Times by Jo Becker and Ravi Somaiya on the initial Murdoch modus operandi during the siege of Mordor:

Mr. Murdoch was attending a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, in early July when it became clear that the latest eruption of the hacking scandal was not, as he first thought, a passing problem. According to a person briefed on the conversation, he proposed to one senior executive that he “fly commercial to London,” so he might be seen as man of the people.

Little late for that, eh?

He was told that would hardly do the trick, and he arrived on a Gulfstream G550 private jet.

So I guess Rupert's plan to spread Marmite on sandwich bread and swig from a can of Foster's between answers tomorrow has also been scuttled.